[UA-discuss] presentation of links to users - my current working practice

[Dr. Ajay Data]

Here is the card...

On 7 January 2018 20:33:14 GMT+08:00, Andre Schappo <A.Schappo at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
>Can you please send us a scan of the back of your visiting card.
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>Actually I did look at QR codes some 10+ years ago. My purpose was to
>get QR codes to work with IDNs. This was in the days when it was
>idn.ascii-tld and there was no such thing EAI. From what I remember I
>did get it working with IDNs. The technology will have moved on since I
>last looked at it but I see absolutely no reason why QR codes should
>not work with internationalised email addresses. I have not looked at
>QR codes since my investigation 10+ years ago, but will do so later.
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>André
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>On 7 Jan 2018, at 09:34, Dr. Ajay Data
><ajay at data.in<mailto:ajay at data.in>> wrote:
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>Andre, see back of the visiting card, now has 10 different language
>emails addresses, any idea to put them into one bar code so that "Scan,
>Choose, and Send" becomes possible..
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>On 7 January 2018 16:34:48 GMT+08:00, Andre Schappo
><A.Schappo at lboro.ac.uk<mailto:A.Schappo at lboro.ac.uk>> wrote:
>Where I have written " in the From: field - 你好小山" I meant to write "in
>the Subject: field - 你好小山"
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>Thanks to Jim DeLaHunt for pointing this out to me
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>André Schappo
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>On 6 Jan 2018, at 17:16, Andre Schappo
><A.Schappo at lboro.ac.uk<mailto:A.Schappo at lboro.ac.uk>> wrote:
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>Here is my, since this morning, current  practice for presentation of
>links to users. Most of the following I have been doing for some time
>but I have not been consistent. I will endeavour to be more consistent
>but sometimes I will forget to do it.
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>Here are my current personal rules for presenting links to users
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>http(s) will be presented without the scheme name nor www (there are a
>small number of websites that have been setup with only the www
>prefixed form). I will also, as has been my practice for years, show
>the real address eg uasg.tech<https://uasg.tech/> If it is a really
>long address which I cannot reasonably fit on say, a presentation
>slide, I will use ellipsis to indicate there is more eg
>once.upon/a/time/there/was/a/beautiful/princess/that/…<http://once.upon/a/time/there/was/a/beautiful/princess/that/lived/in/an/ancient/castle/high/in/the/mountains>
>One thing I will definitely not do is have anything like — " … click
>here<http://wearegoingtostealallyourmoney.mafia/> for more information.
>"
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>email addresses I will of course linkify. That has been common practice
>in many apps for many years and common practice not to present to the
>user the scheme name mailto: . It is though still a bit difficult to
>get apps to auto linkify idn email addresses. But one can do it
>manually quite easily, well sometimes. Very easy with DataMail
>邮.电邮.在线<http://xn--ue4a.xn--wny099c.xn--3ds443g/>
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>Other schemes I will present to the user with the scheme name to
>distinguish them from email and website links eg
>sftp://store.in.the.street/mine/file.txt
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>I have given my email sig a makeover to conform with this working
>practice. If you have time can you please test the email link in my
>email sig below. I do not know what different mail clients will do with
>it. I hope that when you click the email link you will see in the email
>message To: field = my chinese email address 小山@电邮.在线 and in the From:
>field - 你好小山 in your email client/App/webmail. That is what I see and
>that is what I set it up to do.
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>Anyone from Apple on this list? There is an issue with OSX High Sierra
>Mail App. When I add an email link I have to specify "mailto://" rather
>than "mailto:". That in itself is not the issue but rather it is that
>Mail then treats the "//" as part of the email address and puts it into
>the email message To; field. I got round it by editing my mailsignature
>file and removed the "//". An easy fix would be to allow both
>"mailto://" and "mailto:" when adding links. Any chance of flagging
>this problem with the OSX Mail team?
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>André
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>André Schappo
>小山@电邮.在线<mailto:%E5%B0%8F%E5%B1%B1@%E7%94%B5%E9%82%AE.%E5%9C%A8%E7%BA%BF?Subject=%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD%E5%B0%8F%E5%B1%B1%F0%9F%98%9C>
>schappo.blogspot.co.uk<https://schappo.blogspot.co.uk/>
>twitter.com/andreschappo<https://twitter.com/andreschappo>
>weibo.com/andreschappo<https://weibo.com/andreschappo>
>groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/computer-science-curriculum-internationalization<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/computer-science-curriculum-internationalization>
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